It seems like it was announcement day across IBM, and specifically in WebSphere. While the announcements were numerous and touched many different topics, I want to focus on a couple of announcements of particular interest to those of you interested in WebSphere CloudBurst and IBM Hypervisor Edition virtual images.

First, for all of our WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Business Monitor users, there are a couple of important pieces of information in this announcement. This announcement outlines the availability of WebSphere Business Monitor Hypervisor Edition. The new image allows you to dispense WebSphere Business Monitor 7.0 environments using WebSphere CloudBurst to VMware hypervisors. In addition, the announcement outlines the expansion of the existing WebSphere Process Server Hypervisor Edition image to support the z/VM platform and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system for VMware.

Moving beyond our BPM set of solutions, IBM also announced the availability of a WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition. This virtual image allows you to construct and deploy WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere MQ environments using WebSphere CloudBurst. The stack includes the RHEL operating system, and it is ready to run on VMware hypervisors.

With that in mind, here's an update to the WebSphere CloudBurst supported product matrix:

As you can see, we are continuing our effort to expand the choice you have when using WebSphere CloudBurst to create and deploy application environments to your cloud. If you are interested in using WebSphere CloudBurst for WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Process Server, or WebSphere Message Broker, check out the above announcements. You will find more technical information as well as planned availability dates.

Just one last scrap of food for thought. Feedback from you, our users, is instrumental as we continue to expand software choice with WebSphere CloudBurst. Please continue to let us know your thoughts and needs!